From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 27 11:52:48 2005
Subject: Re: dec2base
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>,         Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@users.sourceforge.net>,         Yassine Boujelben <yassine.boujelben@polymtl.ca>,         Andre Girard <andre@inrs-emt.uquebec.ca>, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:56:16 -0500

On 27-Jan-2005, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| This version will fail for me for the  case dec2base(2^51-1,2), and 
| results in an additional 0 in the string. There are probably many 
| similar cases that are less drastic. Given that it is the "-1" in this 
| case does change the value of the log, I see no solution, but the one I 
| proposed. Though correct me if I'm wrong.

OK, I've used David's patch instead, and added the dec2base(2^51-1,2)
test at the end of the file.

Thanks,

jwe



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------